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A60395 A short treatise of altars, altar-furniture, altar-cringing, and musick of all the quire, singing-men and choristers, when the holy Communion was administered in the cathedrall church of Durham by prebendaries and petty-canons, in glorious copes embroidered with images, 1629 / written at the same time by Peter Smart ... Smart, Peter, 1569-1652? 1643 (1643) Wing S4014; ESTC R20243 26,828 32

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